Then large companies would begin paying lawyers low retainers/fees, but with tons of benefits. Thus even if you win you'd only get twice minimum wage for your lawyer fees.
There are a lot of us. Its acceptable if a few people die developing a technology that could help solve so many of our problems. Our society's aversion to risk has become stifling. If we had fun labs in elementary school science class, perhaps we wouldn't be lagging the rest of the first world in technology. Sure we'd loose a few kids, but those left would be excited about science.
"If you love safe science so much, why don't you marry it!" -- Cave Johnson
Its amount of food overall. You can become obese eating only the healthiest of foods if you eat too much, and some nutritionist recently lost 30lbs eating nothing but nachos to prove the opposite point. Thermodynamics works. If you eat less than you burn you will eventually stop being fat, Newton will crush with an apple any who disagree. Actually eating less is the hard part, imagine if an alcoholic couldn't quit all at once, they had to have some every day to live...
Some tricks: Never eat a food you are craving unless it has almost no calories (leafy greens for example) Never have food in the house that is "snackable" Get prepackaged meals, and portionize any cooking you do immediately. Most have heard never go shopping for food hungry, but it holds for restaurants as well, if you are starving, eat in, it will be easier to be sensible. Identify which moods you are more likely to overeat in, happy,sad, bored, etc. and think of something else to do in that situation that is healthier.
Also, don't worry about physical activity at first, some studies have shown that physical activity in children increases as a result of weight loss, not the other way around.
Finally, I'm not a dietitian, this is all from personal experience. Except for the thermo part, don't argue with that.
Fusion is a great long term proposition, even if we never learn how to make a reactor other than the one we are orbiting, but I think we will. The thorium won't run out before we figure out fusion. But right now we need to be worried about if fossil fuels will run out before we get the thorium reactors built, not whether they will be prone to the same incidents seen in 30yr old reactors essentially designed as nuclear weapons refineries.
Oh! How we wished we had pliars! You had it great, we had to use our teeth to scrape off the traces for the interrupts and redraw them using whale oil lamps to melt the solder.
I agree its too disheartening to think about whether or not your actions will change the world. Its better to think about them changing yourself. Doing what you think is right, not because it will make the world better, but because it makes you better. My father taught me a simple rule to answer questions like the GP asked. "If everyone did as you did, would the world be better or worse."
Power companies lower their prices by instantly selling excess, and instantly buying extra power rather than fire up backup natural gas generators that are less efficient (in the US). The communications links used for this would be too expensive to build as new stand alone links. They really should be through VPNs or better yet, hardware AES links or something.
Water has few if any excuses that I know of.
Traffic lights have the best ones. To manage city-wide traffic there has to be communication between proximate intersections. And putting crytpo in the lights at an intersection isn't an easy fix. Putting different keys in each light would be a nightmare, and if you don't, physical access to one light compromises the whole system. If you have central control, that center can have each light's public key, thats not so bad, but a central control point might not be the most robust system in the first place.
These systems need to communicate, dedicated communication lines are too expensive, crypto is hard to do right and hence, also expensive. Crypto is the answer we need to move towards I think, its ultimately more secure than dedicated lines, and might even cost less.
They are more efficient partly because of their coldbloodedness according to the article. In places with sufficiently long growing seasons that won't be a problem. But you will have to transport the stuff to places with longer cold seasons, adding inefficiency. Cattle have built in warmers.
Delusions are fun! Sci-fi and fantasy are my favorite delusions. Just treat this like a request on the best way to LARP. In that vein, I'd suggest he do something novel. Rather than test what is happening in the environment, test what is happening to the observer. Shave his family bald and attach homemade EEGs. Blood pressure, skin conductivity, a thermal camera aimed at the observers if there is some money involved, a thermometer up their bald rear if they there isn't. Sounds like fun to me. As a control he could use the same sensors at home while watching a famly film, and in a peaceful outdoors setting. I'd be truly interested in knowing if the foreknowledge that a place is considered to be haunted is the main factor, or if its the general ambience of a place (tapestries and wood paneling vs. wallpaper with little flowers and espn blaring).
Does retreating to chaotic gamespace work in other complex games too? It makes intuitive sense that if an opponent is better at you with pistols at ten paces, that you choose shotguns at twenty. If it is not considered bad form to refuse to acknowledge defeat until the last move, it seems this technique could turn Go into a game of mental endurance.
In marbury vs madison the supreme court ruled that the supreme court had the power of judicial review and could rule a law unconstitutional. That is kind of odd that they would grant themselves power like that, but it had been discussed at the time the constitution was written, with both proponents and detractors. As written however the constitution left both judicial review and the extent to which judges were constrained by the law vague. However, if the supreme court decides a law is unconstitutional, they probably won't find you guilty of violating it whether or not the legislators agree to strike it from the body of law. They did provide a way for congress to depose a judge that was perceived to be overstepping their bounds though, so it could have gone the other way with legislators angry that their law had been struck down, removing all the offending justices. Perhaps what kept them from doing so is their constituency.
The judiciary is supposed to judge cases, plane and simple. There is nothing in article 3 that says they have to rule with the law, there is also nothing giving them the power to rule anything unconstitutional. The idea that we as citizens should let a judge sit that rules contrary to the law is as insane as the idea that we allow a president to sit that violates the judiciaries interpretation of the constitution. If the law says something clearly, and they ignore it, we should press our elected legislators to remove them by the methods set aside for that purpose in the same article. Where the law is less clear, or clear, but a significant portion of the population *choose* to misinterpret it, there is a bit of a problem. Deciding who and what qualify as "people" is a great example. Slaves and fetuses have both fallen into that category, hopefully someday we will have to answer the same question about AI. As a developer when there is an unclear requirement, I don't just interpret it how I want, I get the writer to clarify it. It seems that would be a better way to solve such problems. The judiciary can force an emergency session of the legislature until the law is suitably unambiguous (how that is judged is a whole separate can of worms).
I thought the size of the game world in oblivion was fine, it was just too compressed. All of Morrowind took place on one tiny island off the coast of said region. Oblivion threw away any sense of scale by putting five or so cities in all of the largest region in Tamriel and making it so that it could be crossed by walking in less than an hour real time. Artificially limiting the scale as they did in Morrowind would have helped me suspend my disbelief a bit. I would have taken invisible walls over compression.
Agreed about daggerfall, the character generation was its strength, not the game world.
As we make more people, and those people create more things of value, doesn't that guarantee that the value of a bitcoin will inflate? IANAE (I'm not an economist), but it seems like capping the amount of money is bad. Even the gold standard had mines to try and keep up with generated value. Is the 21million an agreement, an effect of the distribution of a certain sort of number?
I always liked the idea of fixing a currency to energy. If it inflated I think that would mean we were using more than we were producing with it. A good thing to know. The wide variety of forms of energy and their vastly differing levels of utility is hard to account for though.
Yeah, its a small niche. Our IT quite rightly doesn't trust developers with permission to install apps. And going through the paperwork to get it installed (if they even will) when I move to another machine is often a longer timeline than the project I'm working. If I'm on a linux machine I've always got GCC and hence use it (along with the greatness that is vim). If I'm on windows its always got office and hence VBA, but rarely anything else, so thats what I use. Its fast and its got tons of math libraries built in, better than even boost's math libraries really.
The hatred for vba is misplaced. The quality of the code written in it is primarily the fault of its low barrier to entry, not its poor design. Too many people use it who shouldn't. If you are stuck without matlab or a real compiler its about your best bet. Way faster than python (2 or 3 times faster for standard linear algebra stuff), because its compiled not interpreted. It has huge libraries of math utilities, and a quick simple way to make headers for any dll calls you need to make. By comparison python bindings to natively compiled routines are brain surgery, and they aren't *that* hard. If you only have a compiler and no libraries it still can be a good choice. But given good libraries or (genuflection required) matlab with toolboxes, vba is quite obviously a poor choice.
SuperPacman is a trademark, you cannot copyright a name. I think a court would rule that "super pac" is too close to the original trademark. However, copying the "look and feel" of a game using different code and different art, is not copyright infringement. There are multiple precedents for this. If he had borrowed either code or art it would be considered a derivative work under copyright. Its software patents that are used when software preforms the same function as software you wrote first, but I doubt pacman was patented.
This wasn't legal advice, I'm just regurgitating the sage advice of past/.ers who said TWAL.
Its a privilege not a right. Copyright is a bad term. Ideas do not belong to the first being to hold them in their mind. Art does not belong to the artist. I'm not going to say some hippie crap like art belongs to everyone, rather I say it doesn't belong to anyone, it just is. You can't own blue, righteous indignation, the smell of napalm, or the force (sorry Lucas). We grant the privilege of profit for a period of time as a robust method of rewarding people for their efforts in proportion to how much people like the results of their mental labor. We made this law in the hope that it would encourage more such effort. The law was broken by PG, probably accidentally, but this is a legal issue, not a moral one, as no one is having their rights violated.
In highly developed countries people are already having too few children. We aren't replacing the workforce and are having to borrow from developing countries. In addition to having fewer children people are waiting until later in life to have them. If people knew there wasn't a time limit, a point past which they could not have children, they would wait even longer. I suspect that in the first world this problem would solve itself. Providing such treatment in developing countries would probably cause Malthusian collapse in short order. Got to get them 2^10 TV channels, and only then provide the cure for aging.
Ah! My disconnect wasn't the word fascism but federalism. I think of federalism as one of the more centralist doctrines. The anti-federalists in the U.S. for instance were for a weaker central government than the federalists.
Could you expound upon fascism being opposed to federalism? That seems non-intuitive to me. Don't want to argue, just wanted the reasoning. Fascism is so overloaded as a term, and historically encompassed so many ideologies, its probably just that I think of some first and ignore others.
I'm pretty sure the receivers can directly measure doppler on the GPS signal. The error in receiver position won't screw that measurement up to any appreciable degree, and the accuracy is such that even if they bother using the derivative of position in their velocity solution it wouldn't be weighted enough to cause a problem (especially since the time duration of the dropout would be factored in). That said, its a stupid idea to disable cell phones under any conditions. I'm not even sure I like the idea of making talking of a phone illegal while driving. Yes its dangerous, even with an earpiece it almost as dangerous according to studies. Some studies show that simply having a passenger talking on a phone is just as bad. Making it illegal to communicate has free speech implications, and that is not something to be taken lightly.
I say, expose, name, and applaud in this case. There have been no reports of anything but silent infections. The detailed writeups on this show so many checks and double checks that the system had to be exactly configured in one particular way, so that its at least six sigma out that it would interfere with other systems. Someone sabotaged a nuclear weapons plant in a non-violent way with no risk of doing anything but keeping what would have been weapons, fuel. In any other situation this would be widely praised. You are right about the exposing being important though, its good practice for next time when whoever it is does something really nasty, and they will.
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Then large companies would begin paying lawyers low retainers/fees, but with tons of benefits. Thus even if you win you'd only get twice minimum wage for your lawyer fees.
There are a lot of us. Its acceptable if a few people die developing a technology that could help solve so many of our problems. Our society's aversion to risk has become stifling. If we had fun labs in elementary school science class, perhaps we wouldn't be lagging the rest of the first world in technology. Sure we'd loose a few kids, but those left would be excited about science.
"If you love safe science so much, why don't you marry it!" -- Cave Johnson
Its amount of food overall. You can become obese eating only the healthiest of foods if you eat too much, and some nutritionist recently lost 30lbs eating nothing but nachos to prove the opposite point. Thermodynamics works. If you eat less than you burn you will eventually stop being fat, Newton will crush with an apple any who disagree. Actually eating less is the hard part, imagine if an alcoholic couldn't quit all at once, they had to have some every day to live...
Some tricks:
Never eat a food you are craving unless it has almost no calories (leafy greens for example)
Never have food in the house that is "snackable"
Get prepackaged meals, and portionize any cooking you do immediately.
Most have heard never go shopping for food hungry, but it holds for restaurants as well, if you are starving, eat in, it will be easier to be sensible.
Identify which moods you are more likely to overeat in, happy,sad, bored, etc. and think of something else to do in that situation that is healthier.
Also, don't worry about physical activity at first, some studies have shown that physical activity in children increases as a result of weight loss, not the other way around.
Finally, I'm not a dietitian, this is all from personal experience. Except for the thermo part, don't argue with that.
Fusion is a great long term proposition, even if we never learn how to make a reactor other than the one we are orbiting, but I think we will. The thorium won't run out before we figure out fusion. But right now we need to be worried about if fossil fuels will run out before we get the thorium reactors built, not whether they will be prone to the same incidents seen in 30yr old reactors essentially designed as nuclear weapons refineries.
Oh! How we wished we had pliars! You had it great, we had to use our teeth to scrape off the traces for the interrupts and redraw them using whale oil lamps to melt the solder.
Eating 30 bananas in an hour seems quite likely to be fatal, I had no idea 1015us were that dangerous.
I agree its too disheartening to think about whether or not your actions will change the world. Its better to think about them changing yourself. Doing what you think is right, not because it will make the world better, but because it makes you better. My father taught me a simple rule to answer questions like the GP asked. "If everyone did as you did, would the world be better or worse."
Power companies lower their prices by instantly selling excess, and instantly buying extra power rather than fire up backup natural gas generators that are less efficient (in the US). The communications links used for this would be too expensive to build as new stand alone links. They really should be through VPNs or better yet, hardware AES links or something.
Water has few if any excuses that I know of.
Traffic lights have the best ones. To manage city-wide traffic there has to be communication between proximate intersections. And putting crytpo in the lights at an intersection isn't an easy fix. Putting different keys in each light would be a nightmare, and if you don't, physical access to one light compromises the whole system. If you have central control, that center can have each light's public key, thats not so bad, but a central control point might not be the most robust system in the first place.
These systems need to communicate, dedicated communication lines are too expensive, crypto is hard to do right and hence, also expensive. Crypto is the answer we need to move towards I think, its ultimately more secure than dedicated lines, and might even cost less.
They are more efficient partly because of their coldbloodedness according to the article. In places with sufficiently long growing seasons that won't be a problem. But you will have to transport the stuff to places with longer cold seasons, adding inefficiency. Cattle have built in warmers.
Delusions are fun! Sci-fi and fantasy are my favorite delusions. Just treat this like a request on the best way to LARP. In that vein, I'd suggest he do something novel. Rather than test what is happening in the environment, test what is happening to the observer. Shave his family bald and attach homemade EEGs. Blood pressure, skin conductivity, a thermal camera aimed at the observers if there is some money involved, a thermometer up their bald rear if they there isn't. Sounds like fun to me. As a control he could use the same sensors at home while watching a famly film, and in a peaceful outdoors setting. I'd be truly interested in knowing if the foreknowledge that a place is considered to be haunted is the main factor, or if its the general ambience of a place (tapestries and wood paneling vs. wallpaper with little flowers and espn blaring).
Does retreating to chaotic gamespace work in other complex games too? It makes intuitive sense that if an opponent is better at you with pistols at ten paces, that you choose shotguns at twenty. If it is not considered bad form to refuse to acknowledge defeat until the last move, it seems this technique could turn Go into a game of mental endurance.
In marbury vs madison the supreme court ruled that the supreme court had the power of judicial review and could rule a law unconstitutional. That is kind of odd that they would grant themselves power like that, but it had been discussed at the time the constitution was written, with both proponents and detractors. As written however the constitution left both judicial review and the extent to which judges were constrained by the law vague. However, if the supreme court decides a law is unconstitutional, they probably won't find you guilty of violating it whether or not the legislators agree to strike it from the body of law. They did provide a way for congress to depose a judge that was perceived to be overstepping their bounds though, so it could have gone the other way with legislators angry that their law had been struck down, removing all the offending justices. Perhaps what kept them from doing so is their constituency.
The judiciary is supposed to judge cases, plane and simple. There is nothing in article 3 that says they have to rule with the law, there is also nothing giving them the power to rule anything unconstitutional. The idea that we as citizens should let a judge sit that rules contrary to the law is as insane as the idea that we allow a president to sit that violates the judiciaries interpretation of the constitution. If the law says something clearly, and they ignore it, we should press our elected legislators to remove them by the methods set aside for that purpose in the same article. Where the law is less clear, or clear, but a significant portion of the population *choose* to misinterpret it, there is a bit of a problem. Deciding who and what qualify as "people" is a great example. Slaves and fetuses have both fallen into that category, hopefully someday we will have to answer the same question about AI. As a developer when there is an unclear requirement, I don't just interpret it how I want, I get the writer to clarify it. It seems that would be a better way to solve such problems. The judiciary can force an emergency session of the legislature until the law is suitably unambiguous (how that is judged is a whole separate can of worms).
I thought the size of the game world in oblivion was fine, it was just too compressed. All of Morrowind took place on one tiny island off the coast of said region. Oblivion threw away any sense of scale by putting five or so cities in all of the largest region in Tamriel and making it so that it could be crossed by walking in less than an hour real time. Artificially limiting the scale as they did in Morrowind would have helped me suspend my disbelief a bit. I would have taken invisible walls over compression.
Agreed about daggerfall, the character generation was its strength, not the game world.
As we make more people, and those people create more things of value, doesn't that guarantee that the value of a bitcoin will inflate? IANAE (I'm not an economist), but it seems like capping the amount of money is bad. Even the gold standard had mines to try and keep up with generated value. Is the 21million an agreement, an effect of the distribution of a certain sort of number?
I always liked the idea of fixing a currency to energy. If it inflated I think that would mean we were using more than we were producing with it. A good thing to know. The wide variety of forms of energy and their vastly differing levels of utility is hard to account for though.
Yeah, its a small niche. Our IT quite rightly doesn't trust developers with permission to install apps. And going through the paperwork to get it installed (if they even will) when I move to another machine is often a longer timeline than the project I'm working. If I'm on a linux machine I've always got GCC and hence use it (along with the greatness that is vim). If I'm on windows its always got office and hence VBA, but rarely anything else, so thats what I use. Its fast and its got tons of math libraries built in, better than even boost's math libraries really.
The hatred for vba is misplaced. The quality of the code written in it is primarily the fault of its low barrier to entry, not its poor design. Too many people use it who shouldn't. If you are stuck without matlab or a real compiler its about your best bet. Way faster than python (2 or 3 times faster for standard linear algebra stuff), because its compiled not interpreted. It has huge libraries of math utilities, and a quick simple way to make headers for any dll calls you need to make. By comparison python bindings to natively compiled routines are brain surgery, and they aren't *that* hard. If you only have a compiler and no libraries it still can be a good choice. But given good libraries or (genuflection required) matlab with toolboxes, vba is quite obviously a poor choice.
SuperPacman is a trademark, you cannot copyright a name. I think a court would rule that "super pac" is too close to the original trademark. However, copying the "look and feel" of a game using different code and different art, is not copyright infringement. There are multiple precedents for this. If he had borrowed either code or art it would be considered a derivative work under copyright. Its software patents that are used when software preforms the same function as software you wrote first, but I doubt pacman was patented.
This wasn't legal advice, I'm just regurgitating the sage advice of past /.ers who said TWAL.
Its a privilege not a right. Copyright is a bad term. Ideas do not belong to the first being to hold them in their mind. Art does not belong to the artist. I'm not going to say some hippie crap like art belongs to everyone, rather I say it doesn't belong to anyone, it just is. You can't own blue, righteous indignation, the smell of napalm, or the force (sorry Lucas). We grant the privilege of profit for a period of time as a robust method of rewarding people for their efforts in proportion to how much people like the results of their mental labor. We made this law in the hope that it would encourage more such effort. The law was broken by PG, probably accidentally, but this is a legal issue, not a moral one, as no one is having their rights violated.
In highly developed countries people are already having too few children. We aren't replacing the workforce and are having to borrow from developing countries. In addition to having fewer children people are waiting until later in life to have them. If people knew there wasn't a time limit, a point past which they could not have children, they would wait even longer. I suspect that in the first world this problem would solve itself. Providing such treatment in developing countries would probably cause Malthusian collapse in short order. Got to get them 2^10 TV channels, and only then provide the cure for aging.
Ah! My disconnect wasn't the word fascism but federalism. I think of federalism as one of the more centralist doctrines. The anti-federalists in the U.S. for instance were for a weaker central government than the federalists.
Could you expound upon fascism being opposed to federalism? That seems non-intuitive to me. Don't want to argue, just wanted the reasoning. Fascism is so overloaded as a term, and historically encompassed so many ideologies, its probably just that I think of some first and ignore others.
I'm pretty sure the receivers can directly measure doppler on the GPS signal. The error in receiver position won't screw that measurement up to any appreciable degree, and the accuracy is such that even if they bother using the derivative of position in their velocity solution it wouldn't be weighted enough to cause a problem (especially since the time duration of the dropout would be factored in). That said, its a stupid idea to disable cell phones under any conditions. I'm not even sure I like the idea of making talking of a phone illegal while driving. Yes its dangerous, even with an earpiece it almost as dangerous according to studies. Some studies show that simply having a passenger talking on a phone is just as bad. Making it illegal to communicate has free speech implications, and that is not something to be taken lightly.
I say, expose, name, and applaud in this case. There have been no reports of anything but silent infections. The detailed writeups on this show so many checks and double checks that the system had to be exactly configured in one particular way, so that its at least six sigma out that it would interfere with other systems. Someone sabotaged a nuclear weapons plant in a non-violent way with no risk of doing anything but keeping what would have been weapons, fuel. In any other situation this would be widely praised. You are right about the exposing being important though, its good practice for next time when whoever it is does something really nasty, and they will.
Given that we block ads, I don't think they will care that we avoid their sites as they lose no money.